As if the last 10 pages weren’t exciting enough, we’re expecting hundreds more bands to drop new music in the next 12 months. We’re hyped for the return of our favourite corpsepainted meme machine, Abbath, and judging by murmurings from our goth-pun friends AFI, something is afoot in their camp too. Following 2017’s Mass VI ritualistic Belgians Amenra are releasing a new album in late spring. We’d assume it would be called Mass VII, but rumours suggest otherwise… Meanwhile, melodeath legends At The Gates will continue their 2000s run with a follow-up to 2018’s excellent To Drink From The Night Itself.
This time last year, we were hoping Beartooth would release a follow-up to 2018’s Disease. They didn’t! But Caleb’s confirmed that “new jams are indeed on the way…” And on that note, here’s a list of other bands we thought would release new music in 2020, but who are set to bring the noise in 2021 instead: Boss Keloid, Carcass, Cradle Of Filth, Perturbator, Rob Zombie, Rolo Tomassi and Wolves In The Throne Room. Yas!
Power metal fans rejoiced in 2019, when Hansi Kursch teamed up with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for Legacy Of The Dark Lands, under the banner of Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra, but this year we’ll be getting a Blind Guardian album proper. In the UK, Bullet For My Valentine will follow up 2018’s Gravity, while anticipation is high for Carcass’s first album in eight years and great British hopes Conjurer, who are set to capitalise on 2018’s critically acclaimed debut Mire.
Crossfaith have been readying themselves to bring the party back, while Woking’s Employed To Serve released new song Party’s Over last October, and we’re likely to hear more music from them soon. Evanescence have also been drip-feeding new material for The Bitter Truth, which will arrive in March. Soon after, California thrash stalwarts Exodus will release their second full-length with returned vocalist Steve ‘Zetro’ Souza, while over in NOLA, Eyehategod are about to release new record A History Of Nomadic Behaviour after a seven-year gap. We’re still not quite sure what went down with Fear Factory, but their first album since Burton C Bell left is due in springtime.